Unrelated thing: Disappearing CD-RW

[eirias]

Today I was mucking about with trying to set up a tiny LAN here with my laptop and my mom's PC. In doing this, some kind of Miniport adapter bridge installed itself, presumably due to the Network Wizard. Good, I thought, less work I'll have to do.

Couldn't get the networking to work, so I thought I'd copy the XP wizard onto a CD-RW and move it to my Win2K box, as it had suggested I do. And then I noticed - the CD-RW drive doesn't seem to exist. It's not listed in the device manager and nothing happens when you try to open the drive.

I don't know whether this is some bizarre result of my network mucking or not; I don't see how it would be, but Windows works in mysterious ways. Right now I'm scanning for viruses, as I know there's at least one virus out there that makes drives disappear. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Does anyone have advice?

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Re: :P

[eirias.livejournal.com]

That would be a good idea, only Compaq's documentation blows undescended dingo testicles, and I have no idea what make/model the CD-RW drive is. (There's not even relevant info on the model on the Compaq website...) I suppose it's fairly likely that opening the case might tell me - might be at least a part-number sticker that I could then Google - but I have a feeling my mom would flip out.

Thanks, though :)

Re: :P

[zeldajean.livejournal.com]

well, that was going to be my suggestion... *generally* the drives have the manufacturer and stuff on a sticker on top.

Perhaps look for drivers for your model fo Compaq? I'm a little confused (too much brain fog) to tell if that's what you meant.

Otherwise... is there such a thing as a generic driver? I dunno, that might help.

Ohh! The bridge may have developed an IRQ conflict or somesuch, although I thought XP was supposed to prevent that.

Uhhh... my head is foggy now, I should sleep. Good luck!